Family Quote by Seneca the Younger

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

— Lucretia Mott

“Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against them if…

— Plato

A tyrant is most tyrant to himself

— George Herbert

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve…

— Richard Jefferies

A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.

— George Herbert

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural…

— Edmund Burke

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

— William Blake

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

— Walter Raleigh

The tyrant is a child of pride.

— Sophocles

“A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty. He would be unable to raise his hand in punishment or to…

— Shan Sa

He is most powerful who governs himself.

— Seneca the Younger

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

— Walter Savage Landor